Cool Breeze Equine, LLC

12/16/2025

Let’s celebrate an amazing year and our riders’ hard work together!

12/13/2025

From giving good starts to young horses & young riders to advancing more experienced students & horses, CBE is all about training from the horse’s perspective.

Connecting with a horse is a magic unlike anything else and whether you are an owner, trainer, or take once a week lessons, you have undoubtedly felt that magic.

On this we celebrate how horses have touched our lives & the lives of so many of our students of all ages, stages, & walks of life.

As we celebrate let's all remember that we do this no matter what our goals or level may be.

12/10/2025

“I need my horse to take a joke.”
People say this all the time about their horses—usually while doing something that would make any self-respecting prey animal file a complaint with HR.

It’s an interesting mindset, mostly because the “joke” is always on the horse.
I can flop around up here like a laundry bag, jab you in the ribs, accidentally water-ski on the reins—haha! Classic me! Lighten up, buddy!

Meanwhile, the rider’s definition of “joking back” is limited.
If the responds with a jig, a little buck, maybe a dramatic head toss - suddenly it’s not a comedy anymore. Now it’s a “behavior issue.” Now someone’s calling a trainer, a chiropractor, and possibly a priest. They're taking their toys and going home.

It’s like that person who loves teasing everyone at the party, but if you tease them back even one ounce, they go silent, stare at you like you’ve shattered their world view, and spend the rest of the night telling other people they were “attacked.”

The whole thing asks a bigger question:
If you want a horse who can “take a joke,” maybe the first step is learning to take one yourself. Because a real partnership isn’t one where only one of you is allowed to be imperfect. Sometimes the horse’s “joke” is just them telling you the truth—with a little extra enthusiasm.

If we expect our horses to tolerate our whole routine, it behooves us to tolerate theirs, right? Otherwise, we just look like that sulky stand up comedian going on a tyiade to an audience. Maybe the audience got the joke, they just didn't find it funny.

Here's Merlin's puzzled expression at my joke. I waited for the punchline to sink in, but he said, "I got it man, you're just not funny."

Photo by Caitlin Hatch

12/10/2025

12/04/2025

🎄Get ready to kick off the holiday season with our Christmas Games Show!🎄

Date: Sunday, December 7th
Start Time: 10:00 AM
Location: 6090 Leeds Manor Road, Hume, VA 22639
Closing Date: December 5, 2025
Late & same day entries permitted, but a late fee will apply.
Trailer-ins please add a grounds fee.

ENTER HERE: https://CoolBreezeEquineScheduleMyLesson.as.me/ClinicsShowsEvents

🎅Wear your ugliest Christmas sweater!
🍪Bring seasonal goodies to share.
🥇Individual placings and ribbons for each class, plus points contributing to your barn's total score. The barn with the most points wins!

❄️Fun and Festive Classes�❄️
-Egg Nog Relay
-Christmas Ribbon Pairs Class
-Candy Cane (Pole) Bending
-Santa Chimney (Barrel) Race
-Sleigh Jumping (Barnyard Jumping)
-Christmas List Ba****ck Class
-Reindeer Dash Keyhole Race
-Christmas Musical "Chairs"
-Christmas Present Delivery Race
-Down The Chimney Race

12/03/2025

🌟Rider Spotlight🌟
Jordan just competed in her very first horse show at the CBE Fall Fun Show! She rode a beautiful dressage test, was all smiles, and came home with a blue ribbon in the Intro A dressage only division!

Though newer to horses, Jordan and her family set a great example of what our program is all about. She had a whole support team and everyone made sure that along with his rider, Mr. Bentley got all the praise, love, and care that he needed!

Congratulations Jordan! 🏆

12/01/2025

Last Chance on our Black Friday/Cyber Monday Special!
$25 off all intro lessons scheduled by Dec 1st!

11/30/2025

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11/30/2025

🌟Rider Spotlight🌟

Congratulations to Beth, Jackson, and Eliya who all competed in their first dressage test including canter at our Fall Fun Show!

These three riders have all bought horses (for two of them, their first horse!) with us within the past year and have been working hard on building strong connections and foundations through groundwork, structured lessons, and clinics.

It’s so exciting to see that those partnerships are now giving the riders confidence to try new challenges! We can’t wait to see what the future holds for Beth and Perfecto, Jackson and Marty, and Eliya and Junebug! 🦄

11/30/2025

Support your local Small Businesses!
$25 off all intro lessons scheduled by Dec 1st!

11/29/2025

🍂Fall Fun at CBE🍂

A little late on posting, but we didn’t want to miss out on highlighting our recent horse show🥇🎩

CBE hosted our Fall Fun Show which was a huge success! Competitors ranged from first time horse-showers to experienced members of our Show Team, and everyone had a blast!

Whether they rode in a dressage only division or a combined test, each rider demonstrated the skills they have been practicing both on and off their horse in lessons and most importantly, were great ambassadors for their equine partners.

Congratulations to all CBE students who competed or volunteered! 🐴